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'Barely Responsive' Infant Found In Bed With Dead Man In 'Filthy' Hershey Home, Police Say 'Barely Responsive' Infant Found In Bed With Dead Man In 'Filthy' Hershey Home, Police Say
'Barely Responsive' Infant Found In Bed With Dead Man In 'Filthy' Hershey Home, Police Say A five-month-old baby girl was found in bed with a dead man in a Hershey apartment, police announced on Tuesday.  Heaven Maez is behind bars again after her infant daughter was found "in extremely unsanitary conditions" with a man who had died while supposedly caring for her, according to the Derry Township police on March 12. Maez had left her little girl with the unrelated 63-year-old man at his home in the 200 block of Cocoa Avenue about one week before the girl was found during a welfare check requested by the man's family at 5:22 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 20, the police detailed …

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5 People In Serious Condition After Crash On US 422, Police Say (UPDATE) 5 People In Serious Condition After Crash On US 422, Police Say (UPDATE)
5 People In Serious Condition After Crash On US 422, Police Say (Update) Five people are in the hospital and US 422/Benjamin Franklin Highway/West Chocolate Avenue was partially closed in Hershey due to a multi-vehicle crash, authorities announced on Monday morning.  The crash closed the highway's westbound lanes on the roadway between University Drive and Sipe Avenue around 9 a.m. on Aug. 21, according to PennDOT. A large SUV left the northbound lane and went down an embankment and slamming head-on into a large tree, Derry Township police explained in an updated release on Monday afternoon. Skyler Spangler, 20, of Red Lion, was driving, two other adu…

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Missing, Endangered Man Last Seen In Car With Maryland Plates Found Safe: PSP Missing, Endangered Man Last Seen In Car With Maryland Plates Found Safe: PSP
Missing, Endangered Man Last Seen In Car With Maryland Plates Found Safe: PSP UPDATE: Gerald Maguire, 75, of Hershey was found safe in the afternoon on Thursday, September, 1, according to an updated release by Pennsylvania state police. ORIGINAL: A 75-year-old Hershey, Pennsylvania man has been missing since Wednesday, August 31, according to state police.  Gerald Maguire was last seen in the area of Chocolate Avenue in Derry Township around 7 a.m., according to the police. He is possibly driving on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in a GMC  Terrain with the Maryland license plate "59896HT," as stated in the release. Maguire is a 6 foot tall White man with si…

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Happy Birthday, You're Under Arrest: Man Left Starving Puppy In PA Hotel, Report Says Happy Birthday, You're Under Arrest: Man Left Starving Puppy In PA Hotel, Report Says
Happy Birthday, You're Under Arrest: Man Left Starving Puppy In PA Hotel, Report Says A man was arrested on a warrant for abandoning an 8-week-old puppy -- despite a "no pets allowed" rule -- without food or water in a central Pennsylvania hotel for 14 hours, according to a report by PennLive citing police and court documents. William J. Minnick, of Marietta in Lancaster County, spent his 50th birthday in prison after being charged with animal cruelty in connection with the Dec. 29 incident at the Hershey Travel Lodge, according to his court docket and the outlet's report citing an affidavit of probable cause filed by Derry Township police. Hotel staff reported the inci…

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Dating App Nightmare Becomes Reality For Woman Raped By PA Man, Jury Says Dating App Nightmare Becomes Reality For Woman Raped By PA Man, Jury Says
Dating App Nightmare Becomes Reality For Woman Raped By PA Man, Jury Says A woman's worst nightmare became reality when a man she met on a dating app made unwanted advances and then raped her, authorities in Pennsylvania say. Thomas Wilton, 57, of Landisville, Lancaster County, was convicted for his crimes by a jury in Dauphin County on Tuesday. Wilton and the woman he met on Zoosk, a dating app, and texted for several weeks before meeting for dinner at the Arooga’s in Hummelstown on Oct. 7, 2019, according to a statement released by the Dauphin County District Attorney's Office After the date, the pair walked to the 41-year-old woman's car together because it w…

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How About Some AC? Police Say Pennsylvania Predator Invited Hot Kids To Cool Off In His Car How About Some AC? Police Say Pennsylvania Predator Invited Hot Kids To Cool Off In His Car
How About Some AC? Police Say Pennsylvania Predator Invited Hot Kids To Cool Off In His Car "Hey kids, you want some candy?" is apparently outdated. Now potential abductors ask, "Hey kids, you want some air conditioning?" That sounds like the beginning of a bad joke but on Tuesday, a man supposedly asked two children that question, according to Derry Township police. Two men in the Swatara Creek area walked from their parked vehicles to the Deer Run development and spoke with 9 and 11-year-old boys sitting with their dog on a porch outside a home around 5 p.m. One man spoke to the children and the other stood by his car. The man "commented that it was hot outside and the boys c…

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